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Poll Question: Which of these relatively unknown 70's US prog bands do you like?
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34 [26.56%]
3 [2.34%]
3 [2.34%]
5 [3.91%]
2 [1.56%]
2 [1.56%]
9 [7.03%]
15 [11.72%]
6 [4.69%]
21 [16.41%]
10 [7.81%]
18 [14.06%]
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    Posted: June 19 2013 at 19:53
Sometimes you have to dig deep to find treasure.  These 70's American prog bands never really made it to the surface but toiled underground releasing at least one album in their brief attempts at prog stardom.  In your comments, let us know how you discovered the bands you voted for!

This is a multiple choice poll, so vote for all of these 70's American prog bands that you like.
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Cathedral and Lift are two bands I picked up from Syn-Phonic in the early 90s, just as the prog reawakening was starting to occur.  Two bands that sounded a lot like Yes (Cathedral more like Relayer, Lift more like early Yes), both a good listen.   

I've never really given Yezda Urfa, Mirthrandir or Starcastle much of a listen, though I am aware of them and have a faint familiarity with them. Not enough to vote for them though.
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Urfa magnificent, Pentwater highly under-appreciated, but Cartoon is my write-in vote (technically 1980 but close enough).   What I wonder about is all the US '70s prog bands we don't know about.   Yet.
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Cathedral for me.
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I'm also going to write in GRITS, a DC-area band that was contemporaries of the Muffins.  They had a very strong Canterbury/Zappa feel to them.  I've reviewed both of their albums on PA.  They actually never produced an album during their lifetime (mid 70s roughly), but they had a good crop of studio recordings which were later released on Cuneiform CD as "As the World Grits" -- an album I love.

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Gonna write in Sweet Smoke. A proggy/jazzy outfit, Just a Poke was their pinnacle. Two song album though haha. 
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Definitely Shadowfax.
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I own albums (vinyl) from the 70/80s by Shadowfax, Starcastle, and Cathedral, and have discovered Yezda Urfa and Babylon only in the past five years. These latter two are my preferred. Surprised Happy the Man, David Sancious, Larry Fast and Pavlov's Dog aren't on the list (all of whom I own albums but have never really enjoyed). 
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You have Cathedral ON ORIG DELTA LABEL vinyl?  That is a thousand dollar lp.
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Voted for Babylon, Fireballet, Starcastle, Shadowfax. Also voted other: Atlantic Philharmonic.
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Voted for Cathedral, Babylon, and Mirththrandir....it goes without saying that Happy The Man are great also but are they little known..?
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I only know Yezda Urfa and Starcastle from the list
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Yezda Urfa
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Shadowfax and Starcastle are the only two on this list that I've heard.
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My favorite would be Cathedral, but I'll also vote for Mirthrandir and Yezda.
The Other option would include:
Ram
St. Elmo's Fire
Crack The Sky
The Muffins
However (debut in 81' but I must mention them)
Hands
The Facedancers
Goodthunder

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few more...
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Love Yezda Urfa   &   Starcastle
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Some of my favorite American obscurities:
 
The Third Estate - two albums and their best song was the very first, good guitar work and interesting lyrics
 
String Cheese - what psych sounded like in Chicago in the early 70s
 
fred - regional band from late 60s, early 70s rediscovered in the 90s
 
Providence - one small album on Moody Blues' label but they had loads of potential
 
Gypsy - Minneapolis band with piles of ambition and some rotten luck.
 
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Fireballet, I knew these guys when they were known as "The Fireball Kids". They were out of New Jersey. I hired them a couple of times to perform at my college and they always put on a spectacular show.
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